waddin mindin  -

ilka year the roses

aye clap thegither

anniversary gift  -

every year the roses

still cling together

 the bummer's druin

i the lily's craig

...bumbazin tanpura

the bee's drone

in the lily's throat

...hypnotic tanpura

furst puff-baw seed  -

lanely ghaist

stravaigin

first puff-ball seed  -

lonely ghost

wandering

croonin-day  -

a flee-by

o deuks

coronation -day  -

a fly-past

of ducks

Rose o Sharon -

the roariest buss

i the gairden

Rose of Sharon  -

the noisiest bush

in the garden

fellin firs -

the incense

the droosie coos

felling pines  -

the incense

the drowsie cows

sneddin roses  -

fite roses

reiddnin

pruning roses  -

white roses

reddening

 wundy  -

the sauch chynges her dress

frae emerant tae siller

windy  -

the willow changes her dress

from green to silver

cauld wund  -

the burn

chitters

cold wind  -

the stream

shivers

gairden pairty  -

throuch the scrogs

straeberries' reid een

garden party  -

through the undergrowth

strawberries' red eyes

years bygaun

the bairns' photy

slawly dwinin

years passing

the childrens' photograph

slowly fading

roastin day  -

amang oor sheddaes

a droopin yin

hot day  -

among our shadows

a drooping one

the quate burn

meets wi the clints

...threeps

the silent stream

meets the rocks

...utters

the orchid's heid

faws

...flutherin butterie

the orchids's head

falls

...fluttering butterfly

fush-cadger's tooter

cryin in

...fush frae the sea

fishmonger's horn

summoning

...fish from the sea

amang jenny nettles

a hodden flooer  -

its reidness is its blateness

among nettles

a hidden flower  -

its redness is its shyness

troot lowps

in an oot o the burn

...siller steeks

trout leaps

in and out of the stream

...silver stitches

doitit he liggs on clints

waasht up  -  the yin on the brae

skairs's pyne

demented he lies on rocks

washed up  -  the one on the hill

shares his pain

(Peter howson's judas)

ristin on an ashet

flet peaches  -

thair sax bare erses

resting on a plate

flat peaches  -

their six bare bottoms

ettlin tae fit

key tae lock  -

the bodach's trummlin haun

trying to fit

key to lock  -

the old man's trembling hand